For the @latimes.com, I reviewed the incredible authoritarianism drama TWO PROSECUTORS, which recalls everything from THE ZONE OF INTEREST to Jacques Tati.

Tennessee Williams, Playwright, Screenwriter, #BornOnThisDay in 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi 📸 Eliot Elisofon (1947)

As more Wodehouse leaves copyright, the delicious comfort of knowing that Jeeves, Bertie and Psmith are resting comfortably in one’s Magic Rectangle gets better by the year. Here are 3 favorites at $2 a pop! Just look for them under SCIENCE FICTION:

Anyone in the Vancouver area? At VIFF, today begins a fantastic "Mexico Noir" series that runs through April 8. I've seen nine of the films, and if it wasn't geographically inconvenient I'd be there for all the others. Lots of Ninon Sevilla! viff.org/series/mexic...

In the opening scene of A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE, Charles Boyer towers contemptuously over a woman who is about to die. In this scene, a vengeful woman towers over him, as he is about to die. Powerful narrative book-ending. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

March 25, 1960: Actor Haywood Nelson (Dwayne-What's Happening) is born in NYC.

Rory Calhoun, a highly skilled archer in real life, poses c. 1949. Aside from Rory's beauty, I can't get over the poodle in the background with an almost-visible "WTF?" thought bubble over its head.

Mikio Naruse's APART FROM YOU was a beautifully tender melodrama, about an ageing geisha, her son and the girl he loves. So delicately done, w/lovely music from @silentsweeney.bsky.social. Anna May Wong shimmered in SONG, a stunning screening with perfect music from Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius.

And then THE CROWD, with John Sweeney again, brought us all to our knees. Devastating, but so clever – stylised but always human. This film really creeps under the skin and into your heart. Kudos to Alison Strauss and the Hippfest team for another great festival.

Exquisite details (see thread)

It’s Tennessee’s birthday tomorrow. 📸 Richard Avedon (1950)

Bill is my brother. Aside from my wife, I don't think there's another human being in the world more responsible for the amazing & wonderful things in my life. He's my north star: a teacher and the best editor a writer like myself (discursive and unfocused) could've asked for. Here's to another 25.

Really?? That’s hilarious. I’ve only seen pictures of him with the Mamas, which shows how smart he was. The Papas were trashbags.

You're so right. I can't find a single picture of Jimi with John Philips or Denny Doherty. Here's a neat poster from the show you referenced...

Morning dress https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95497

Jimi Hendrix (who was opening for the Mamas and the Papas) backstage at the Hollywood Bowl with Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot, 1967.

[Happy 100th birthday to film critic Gene Shalit! Yes, Gene still walks among us.]

Today is also Roscoe Arbuckle's birthday.

I wait for this scene in “STAGEDOOR” ( 1937 ) between Samuel S. Hinds and Katharine Hepburn playing father - daughter. Not just b’cuz I love my Sammykins so much. 😍 But the scene between him and Kate sounds so very natural. Are they even acting . . . . 1 / 2 #TCMParty • #STAGEDOOR

Suddenly feeling terrible that I’ve never given my cats a tiny typewriter. Photo from my collection, 1966.

After observing hundreds of prison guards, while being a teacher at San Quentin for 14 years, the Lockjaws of the world are real — and alive and well, unfortunately.

this is part of what i mean when i say it’s out DR STRANGELOVE. the characters in STRANGELOVE seem over the top, unrealistic, absurd. but then you learn about lemay and von neumann and teller and kahn and you realize it was basically a documentary.

I thought Sean Penn's performance was way over the top until I took a long look at Greg Bovino. I've said this to several friends. In all sincerity, Bovino changed the way I saw the movie. Penn was tapping into something real that I had managed to avoid.

When I was having some difficulties years ago, Eva Marie Saint & her husband Jeff Hayden rallied to support me when few others would. I was only an acquaintance but their encouragement sustained me in a dark time. I can never repay their kindness. EMS celebrates her 102nd birthday this July 4th!

Miss this when it was published but UNIFIL's former spokesperson said the ceasefire in Lebanon was always built to fail. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

When you need to check the source for one paragraph and that is the paragraph that has no reference whatsoever

Remembering the beautiful Jessica Walter who died on this day in 2021 💖

Today is Steve McQueen’s birthday.

Doing a 92Y book event in 2021 was a thrill for me, as it would be for just about any author. But there's no way I'd go back, as a speaker or an audience member, given the behavior of its current leadership.

Currently revisiting: Strangers on a Train (1951) dir. Alfred Hitchcock #filmsky #thriller 📽️

If you want to get out here in my Bluesky mentions and insult Joan Crawford—on her birthday no less—why not simply block me and eliminate the extra work. Small steps toward better time management do add up.

This week is your LAST CHANCE to catch Mona Fastvold's epic THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, at the IFI, exclusively on 70mm! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Independent Don't miss your opportunity to see this "thrillingly iconoclastic musical" on the big screen. Tickets are available now 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4t0ZW3M

Bal ❤️ | An Istanbul Cat That Followed Me 🐈‍⬛ #cat #cats #catsofbluesky #catpics #catlover #Blueskyねこ部 #caturday #nature #kittens #catsofistanbul #photography #catsky #istanbul

First watch: Love Letter (1953). Kinuyo Tanaka's debut feature and a melodrama tackling the thorny subject of interracial relationships, and the compromises made by women in post-WWII Japan. 1/5

Me too, Joan Crawford, you fabulous woman. Happy birthday! The gif is from The Damned Don't Cry (1950), a film noir loosely based on Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill and made excellent by Joan's fiery performance.

Monday. Bleargh. There is no way out but through.

‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Remembering the terrific Peter Lorre who died on this day in 1964 💖

At my place, a foray into modern true crime, with digressions into old fictional crime: The Film Noir Fate of Kouri Richins (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...

This gorgeous male ruddy duck is sporting his breeding plumage. Isn't he stunning? #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Saw Sam in person a few months ago. Silver-haired, and still smoking hot.

It’s Joseph’s birthday tomorrow.

today's not random theater photo: birthday girl Kathleen Widdoes and hotboi Sam Waterston in Much Ado About Nothing (1972)

obligatory Sam was smoking hot for a long time photo

(My friend @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social will back me up on the film adaptation.)

Liberal England: Dog solves murder: Labrador cracks 160-year-old case when he digs up bottle of Victorian poison in the garden 🏆 #HeadlineOfTheDay The judges say this story reminds them of that time the head of the victim of a notorious 19th-century murder was found in David Attenborough's garden.

Congratulations from Affirmation Coyote! On top of the workplace grind, it has been a hard crazy week. But you made it through, as Affirmation Coyote knew you would.

Oooooof.